How to Update PHP Version Without Re-Install XAMPP Within 3 Steps

Update your PHP version of XAMPP on windows

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In some cases, we need to update the PHP version of our machine. If you are working with XAMPP you can update the PHP version of XAMPP by following the steps below. But here I am not going to directly update XAMMP because it may be causes too many errors and warnings. These steps help you to update the PHP version without any error in XAMPP.

First, see the current version of the PHP of the localhost dashboard as follows.

Image: Checking the current PHP version

Here my existing version is 7.2, So then I am going to update it to version 7.3. You can

Step #1

Go to the following URL and download the relevant zip file as you want.

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